Last week my boss got this e-mail about onions and the flu. So she bought 40 lbs of onions and put them all over the building and had drivers put them in the buses. Not sure if she really believed it or was just trying to boost morale.
"In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their family had contracted it and many died.
The Doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the Doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.
Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. (And no, she is not in the onion business.)
The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.
If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick, all the better. If you do get the flu, it just might be a mild case."
The Doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the Doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn't believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the family healthy.
Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ. She said that several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work. (And no, she is not in the onion business.)
The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.
If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick, all the better. If you do get the flu, it just might be a mild case."
I thought it was just crazy. So I checked it out on "snopes". And of course it was false. So I put copies of the "Snopes" report around the building along with a recipe for fried potatoes and onions. I said if they were suppose to absorb the bad bacteria wouldn't it be better if we ate the onion. Well that was a popular idea with a few of my office mates. So today we brought in all the ingredients and made breakfast burritos for the drivers. We had eggs, potatoes, chorizo, cheese, salsa, and of course the onions. We took in 2 electric skillets and cooked it up in the lounge. Man the place smelled wonderful. When the driver came in from the morning routes they kept asking if we were selling burritos. They were very surprised when they found out we were giving them away. They kept asking what they were for. So I finally said we were celebrating the last Wednesday in October. When they asked me why I simple said, "because you only get one a year".
So maybe it's not my boss that's crazy. Maybe it is me.
4 comments:
This post makes me happy. We only get one a year, that's awesome. I'm kind of sad it doesn't work though, that would be awesome!
Dad used to buy big bags of onions and keep them on the front porch. Don't remember getting the flu, but it didn't help with his kidney stones!
I have a bowl of onions on my kitchen counter next to the water cooler. No one at my house has come down with the flu.
I bought them to make Paula Deens french onion soup.
I love the onion theory! I happen to have a bag of onions setting in my kitchen.
I have had several e-mails suggesting that you gargle with warm salt water morning and night and that will be as good as getting the swine flu shot. It said that if you didn't trust salt water to use listerine
Uncle Walt told me years ago that if I would gargle with yellow listerine morning and evening I would not get a sore throat. I imagine that would be the same for the flu
Love Mom
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